The grey background works far better.
Not identical but similar: you often get birds and butterflies, for example. Have a google images search on bohemian painted millk glass and see...
Some was, some wasn't, and I'm trying to find a decent link on the differences, rather than spout on. ;) You can "fire" glass, in that you can...
Gerroff. Mine!
I suspect Indonesian from the legs.
Bohemian enamelled milk glass, 1920s or 30s. Nice.
No. recent Asian import. The millefiori are far too coarse and not well done enough, and you've got the classic ground but not polished base.
Those Ebay ones do look period, I don't think these do.
If denture cleaner doesn't do it, I use limescale remover, with care and a LOT of rinsing. I also find that a microfibre cloth scrubs it off nicely.
Dressing table, certainly. And I agree 1920s, when the working and lower middle classes started to get the money to buy proper furniture. I do...
fid, I think there's almost no age to them at all, especially looking at the backs. The clay is an odd colour, the glaze is VERY gloopy and those...
Hence the ask for backsides. ;)
Backsides please. My gut feel is these are reproductions. Tin glazed faience of the original age ought to have some bangs and chips. Plus, the...
I had a Good Day, freezing my backside off at a car boot sale. Despite there only being about thirty stalls, I bought yet more brooches: 35 good...
Oh, and fish scale is a keyword.
1930s. The impressed number is the pattern, and they're usually just called matt glazed and impressed. Some did get made after WW2, but yours are...
The BBC is interesting on the subject: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a6651858.shtml As to genuine PoWs,...
I'd think so. ;)
Formal dinner shirts had no buttons, but rather, holes on both plackets. A smart chap - like my Pa - would wear said studs to fasten said shirt.
Oh, and this is cool. http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/08614/cat60966.html A film of said dairy.
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